USAID-Financed PVO Co-Financing Projects in the Philippines and Indonesia: Reshaping the Terms of PVO Collaboration

摘要

Since the mid-1970's, the U.S. Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) has supported several co-financing projects with U.S. and indigenous Private Voluntary Organizations (IPVO's) in the Philippines and Indonesia. These projects have shown that IPVO's are no longer passive recipients of assistance but true collaborators of A.I.D. and U.S. PVO's. In fact, established IPVO's now provide the only affordable means of reaching smaller, newly formed, local organizations in isolated and widely dispersed areas. A key policy implication is that A.I.D. should accord the IPVO's greater responsibility, especially in regard to financial management. At the same time, A.I.D. should only attempt to replicate the Indonesia and Philippine co-financing program after thoroughly analyzing the new setting. The co-financing projects have also shown that, as development practitioners, IPVO's are as good as and often better than the U.S. PVO's now serving them, and know more about the local culture and government sensitivities than do the U.S. PVO's.